Academi 2004 Winner
Anne-Marie Fyfe of London has won the first prize in the Academi's
2004 poetry competition, worth £5,000. For your chance to win
the 2005 competition send for an entry form now. www.acamedi.org
WRITERS WANTED
Kwickee Bitesize populates the Mobile Internet
Kwickee Guides Ltd is proud to announce Kwickee Bitesize, a
unique mobile data platform, where people are invited to share
knowledge by submitting text-based information (articles of
not more than 5,000 characters) on almost any subject: sport,
health, fashion, arts, science, adult, fiction etc., which is
thereafter available for downloading onto browser-enabled mobile
phones. It's the equivalent of eBay but for trading knowledge,
with a library as vast as Amazon and search capabilities equal
to Google.
Kwickee Bitesize, which launches shortly, is host to a wealth
of information (articles, reviews, reports, training, sales
messages etc) written by professionals, the public and marketers,
will be available to a UK market of over 30 million people.
According to research from Jupiter MMXI, the market for mobile
content in Europe is forecast to be worth some €3.3 billion
by 2006. Whereas new research from ARC Group, states that Mobile
services worldwide will be worth a staggering US$126bn by 2008
and will account for almost 20 percent of total mobile operator
revenues. With mobile phone operators' core activities moving
away from traditional voice services to more data based services,
Kwickee Bitesize is poised to be at the forefront of the new
mobile internet.
"In today's non-stop 24/7 lifestyle, the need for instant
information is paramount", commented Julian Fisher, Publisher,
Kwickee Guides. "With Kwickee Bitesize, mobile phone users
have access to information quite literally anytime and anywhere,
without the need for a PC. Bitesize content is specifically
written for access via mobile phones."
New books by...
...you!
I've had several new links by authors to link to their website
and that prompted me to thinking that a page dedicated to new books
by my readers and their friends wouldn't go amiss. So, have you
got something to showcase? Mail showcase@writerswebresource.co.uk
and I promise I'll showcase it for you. Items of an explicit nature
may be edited but generally any press release submitted will be
published. This is your page. Use it!
What do you feel like reading today?
Whether you know what you like to read or you have the urge to try
something different 'Book
Forager' is here to help. Created by the Gloucestershire library
service, Book Forager
will help you choose a book by giving you suggestions based on four
of the twelve available book types. You can make choices based on
Happy/Sad, Funny/Serious, Short/Long, etc. The resulting list gives
you a quick synopses of the book along with its ISBN so it should
be easy to find at the library or the book shop.
But isn't part of the fun of looking for a book standing for ages
reading the jackets in book shops?
Whatever you think give Book
Forager a go at
http://www.branching-out.net/forager Please submit your news to news@writerswebresource.co.uk
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FIRE IN THE HEAD
Tutored by poet and author Roselle Angwin, is
an exciting year round programme of poetry, prose and reflective
writing days, weekends and retreats in stunning locations such
as Iona, Scotland, Devon and Spain.
Read more...
Life Stories - short story
competition run by Lifestory Publishing
and the winners are:
Lawrence Price (Overall Winner)
Ann Dymond (Ancestry winner)
Edwin Danson (Early years winner)
Jon Kenyon (Schooldays winner)
Maggie Innes (Coming of age)
Bernard J Sharps (War years winner)
Ian Searle (Adult years winner)
Sarah Tweddle (Working life winner)
Rose McGregor (Autumn Days winner)
Heather Hyde (Future winner)
These stories have been published in an anthology, Life Stories,
that costs
£9.99 + £2 p&p and is available from Lifestory Publishing
at
www.lifestorycompany.co.uk/books
or 0845 644 3403.
Talk cat and be happy
Family partnership, mother Louisa Young and 10 year old daughter
Isabel, has collaborated to write a possible challenger for Harry
Potter. Publisher Puffin, has signed the pair for a three book deal,
the first of which is called Lionboy. It tells the story of Charlie
Ashanti who speaks 'cat'. This unusual trait helps him to find his
kidnapped parents. The book is due out in October.
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from Amazon and save 20%
New Arts Website
The Surface (http://www.surfaceonline.org)
is an independent international arts magazine based in Scotland
- it involves no charge at any time, no pop up ads or dubious
sponsorship - the Surface is self funded by donations. If you
would like your work to be made available to literary agents,
art directors and editors then please feel free to contribute
to editor@surfaceonline.org
British Library Web
You will find a bottomless pit of research articles and books
at the British Library in London, but what if you can't get there?
No problem. You can now visit them on-line - www.bl.uk Duff Cooper Prize
The 48th Duff Cooper Prize was awarded on Thursday 26 February
2004 to Anne Applebaum for her book Gulag: A History of the Soviet
Camps, published by Allen Lane.
At a party given in the Great Room of King's College, London,
the historian Antony Beevor presented Anne Applebaum with the
prize: a
cheque for £3,000 and a first edition copy of Duff Cooper's autobiography,
Old Men Forget. Antony Beevor described Gulag as 'a tour de force
of scholarship, judgement and humanity'. Guests included Joanna
Lumley, David Attenborough, Bamber Gascoigne, Hugo Vickers
and Piers Paul Read.
Antony Beever Photograph by Graham Jepson
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to news@writerswebresource.co.uk
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